Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-10
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.


.Menominee County. into two election districts
to authorize the Incorporation of associations
for improving the breeds of horses, and several
minor acts which refer to incorporating villages.
In the House bills were passed to restrict hy-
drophobia and glanders; to provide for State
live stock sanitary commission, and for a
State veterinarian, and several local acts.
The report OF the joint Committee Sol
diers Home was presented by Chairman Dick
son. They recommend a system of weekly i'm
spection OF clothing, bedding, and quarters, as
well as the providing OF suitable printed rules
and regulations for the guidance of inmates
and employees also that the management take
such action in the case OF Downs as they may
leave all other punishment or censure regard
ing any irregularity of the other en-
ployes to the Board OF Managers
They do not deem 1t their duty TO 60 farther re-
garding the censure OF any person connected
with the House than to submit all the evidence
for the consideration Of the Legislature and
Board of Managers. While the committee as
sert that the newspaper reports given are
vague, unfounded rumors, false and unreliable
both in substance and in fact, reading of the
testimony. clearly shows that the abuses Of
rrysse Moore px p9%ns as Wei .s ss ALT. al the
discussion lasting over an hour, in which con-
siderable feeling was shown ON both sides, the
reports were ordered printed in pamphlet form
The Committee ON Judiciary reported back
without Recommendation the Senate Joint reso-
luton proposing that the State Senatorial term
shall be eXtenGe cd to four years, but one half OF
the Senate will be elected every two years The
bill failed to pass. Both houses adjourned
until the 2Sth.
THE Legislature resumed its sessions on tho
evening Of Feb. 2s, after throe days rest. The
business was chiefly confined to the reception Of
petitions In the Senate, the House bill previ-
ously passed reincorporating Eaton Rapids was
reconsidered and referred back to the Commit
tee on Cities and Villages. In the House an
NUna anhn BWr Hat fSv.I VNNNA.xN
q suspension of the rules to take up
and pass the bill to organize trotting associa-
tions in the interest Of the improvement OF the
breed OF horses and the American trotting turf.
The tenor Of the bill was not correctly under,
stood nor tho reason for such speedy action,
consequently the measure failed of q sufficient
support to carry it. The vote by which it was
lost was reconsidered and the bill was laid upon
the table.
THE Senate proceedings on the 1st inst were
devoid of public interest, most of the session
being occupied in committee OF the whole.
The House passed bills to amend the act rela-
tive to partition fences to amend an act es-
tablishing recorders court in Kalamazoo,
each party now having six challenges in jury
trials to divide the township of Breen, Men
ominee County, into election districts bill to
promote the interests of tho American trotting
turf, and to reincorporate the villages OF st.
Louis, in Gratiot County, and Grandville, in
Kent County.
SENATOR Posi- rose to question OF privilege
in the Senate, on the ID inst, and asked that
the following item, published in the st. Louis
(Mich.l Leader of Feb. "a, be read "We wonder
If Doodle had anything to do with the action of
Senator Post, in the matter of transferring two
sections of Pine River Township to Acadia
Township To the uninitated it would look so"
He then stated that the paper was published by
an employe of the Senate, Edwin S. Hoskins,
and moved that n committee Of three be ap-
pointed to investigate the report as to
contained in. the item, and also to re-
port upon the right or privilege of an employe
OF tho Senate TO impugn the motives Of any
senator III any action taken by him. The mo
tion prevailed, and the following Senators were
appointed as tho committee: j. w. Babcock,
Giddings, and German. Mr.. Hoskins claims
that the article was printed in his absence that
he knew nothing OF it, and does not consider
himself responsible. The bill TO prevent the
COLLECTION Of notes givar foS aSads or ernin sold
bill, passed the Senate. The Governor sent to
the Senate the following for
members OF the Board Of Managers of
the Soldiers Home at Grand Rapids Michael
Brown, of Big Rapids, six years. to succeed
himself; James A. Grocer, of Menominee, six
years, TO succeed Charles Y. Osborn, of Mar
quette Ex-Governor r. A. Alger, of Detroit to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation OF
Gen. Byron ID. Pierce, Of Grand Rapids. who
becomes acting Manager of the Home. The
House passed bills to create Board of Fire Com
missioners of Bay City toprevent the destruc-
tion of ballots used in the Detroit city election
in November last to authorize tho township of
Cummings, Ogemaw County, to borrow money;
to reincorporate the city of Adrian to provide
for bounty for killing English sparrows; to
amend the laws providing for uscertaining the
annual cereal products Of Michigan.
But little work done in the Senate on the
Sd inst, except in committee OF the whole. The
bill to amend the act providing for ascertaining
the cereal products was the only one OF i'm
portance passed. Senator Hubbell, Chairman
of the Committee ON Mines, Minerals and Min
ing Interests, made a voluminous report on
the mining school. IL shows that there are
twenty-five students in attendance in the tenn
porary building now used, and asks
for an appropriation of $4,000 for a
building and equipments. The Senate adopted
the joint resolution placing tho limit
for Capitol elevator passengers ut ton
The Senate confirmed the Governors appoint
ments of membersOf the Board of Managers OF
tho Soldiers Home. The House passed bills TO
provide for the better protection of labor debts
and to enable land owners to regain lands from
railroads in certain cases. The House Judiciary
Committee reported n substitute for the bill rela-
two to protection for girls making il punishable
as rape for taking indecent liberties with girls
under years. The Committee on State Affairs
State Boald of Corrections and Charities Miss
large and appreciative audience in Representa-
tives hall in advocacy of the social purity bill
now before the Legislature